The chart below provides information on the methods of waste disposal in four European countries.

The given bar chart illustrates how

waste

is disposed of using 4 methods, namely biological

treatment

,

landfill

, burning and recycling in four countries: the Netherlands, Spain, Italy and the UK.

Overall

,

landfill

is the most efficient way to dispose of

waste

in the Netherlands, Spain and Italy

while

in the UK biological

treatment

is the most common method for it. As can be seen, in the Netherlands the highest percentage of

waste

disposal is

landfill

with 41% followed by burning, recycling and biological

treatment

with 29%, 19% and 11% respectively. In Spain, the maximum and minimum percentages of processing collected rubbish are

landfill

at 45% and burning at 5%.

Furthermore

, biological

treatment

is 3% higher than recycling, which is 23%.

However

, the Italian government buries most of their rubbish (40%) which is 7% more than biological

treatment

.

In addition

, they recycle about 11% of their

waste

, which is 5% less than burning them. In the UK, approximately 45% of their

waste

is treated biologically

whereas

it is dumped into landfills with 40% less. It is

also

noteworthy to mention that burning, and recycling methods report the same figure (24%) in that country.